title: Market fish hygiene in Kenya.
abstract: Vibrio parahaemolyticus was isolated from 53 out of 584 samples (9.1%) of market fish. All strains were Kanagawa negative and were distributed as follows: sea fish 5 out of 370 samples (1.4%), shellfish 48 out of 214 samles (22.4%). Other fish spoilage microflora recovered were: Alcaligenes faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus vulgaris, Aeromonas spp. and Vibrio alginolyticus. Total aerobic counts and coliform counts per gram for the lake fish ranged from 2.6 X 10(2) to 6.6 X 10(7) and 10 to 1.0 X 10(2), respectively. Those from marine fish ranged from 1.0 X 10(5) to 8.8 X 10(6) and 2.0 X 10(3) to 1.6 X 10(4), respectively. Counts for marine fish gills alone ranged from 1.4 X 10(5) to 3.4 X 10(8) and 7.2 X 10(2) to 1.4 X 10(7), respectively. No high-temperature (44 degrees) coliforms were recovered from either lake or marine samples.
mesh_terms: D000421:Alcaligenes / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005399:Fishes / Q000382:microbiology*; D005511:Food Handling; D005516:Food Microbiology; D007630:Kenya; D011514:Proteus vulgaris / Q000302:isolation & purification; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014733:Vibrio / Q000302:isolation & purification; D014736:Vibrio parahaemolyticus / Q000302:isolation & purification